ms. moore: madam speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 4, printed in part b of house report number 112-111, offered by ms. moore of wisconsin. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 316, the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. moore, will have -- and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from wisconsin. ms. moore: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. moore: my amendment would ensure that we have the proper data to identify and work with sectors of the u.s. economy that are participating in the patent process at significantly lower rates. specifically, my amendment allows usto to develop methods for ways to track the diversity of patent applicants. it also specifically prohibits the office from using any such results for any preferential treatment in the application process. i certainly do app

ms. moore: thank you so much, the gentleman from georgia. i rise to support this omnibus amendment and for the purpose of directing the department of veterans affairs to examine its practices on how it plans to rehabilitate and reuse national land marks that are aging outdating or in obsolete conditions within the v.a. infrastructure. and issue a report to congress no later than january 1, 2012, on any actions taken or planned to be taken to rehabilitate and use these national landmarks to fulfill its responsibilities under section 106 of the national historic preservation and to our veterans. an example of these landmarks is the milwaukee soldier's home built in 1867. one of the original soldier's homes established by congressional legislation and approved by president abraham lincoln on march 3, 1865 the soldiers home reflects how our four sisters chose to care for and honor the solders who fought to keep the country united as one nation. i say, four sisters because it was the ladies of milwaukee's westside soldiers aid society whose tenac

>> -- ms. moore: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. moore: we all heard michael massar's liquors, teach them well and let them lead the way. the song is sung by every megastar and quoted by every whistle stop by every politician. we believe that our most basic and our most fundamental obligation of a civilized society is not only to teach them well but to feed them. the w.i.c. program is the usda's largest discretionary program that provides assistance to children up to 5 years of age. to pregnant women, postpartum women, breast-feeding women who are nutritionally at risk because of inadequate nutrition and income. we've heard a great deal from the other side, just recently the previous speaker talk about the importance of letting the free market system work, that we need jobs. it can't work. they're helpless, infants. i'm quoting to the most recent census. almost 20% of the nation's children are living in poverty. a recent report estimates that the annual estimated cost of domestic hunger is 90.4 billion dollars, the cost of hunger, th

ms. moore: thank you so much, mr. chair. i can tell you that one of the most heartbreaking experiences that i have had as a member of congress is to watch this congress attempt to balance the deficit and the budget on the backs of infants, on the backs of children who need their educational opportunity, and on the backs of seniors. we have seen gargantuan efforts to cut medicare, the main program to prevent poverty for our seniors, medicaid, women, infants, and children's program, nutrition programs for children, effort to decimate educational opportunity for young people while we refuse to end tax breaks for big oil. the oig five companies made nearly $1 trillion -- the big five oil companies made nearly $1 trillion in profits in the last decade, yet we continue to insist on providing tax breaks for these profitable companies. every year, every year we provide subsidies to oil companies that they pocket. in addition to that, mr. chairman, we are cutting food from babies. i saw numerous, numerous amendments to cut moneys for

ms. dennis, too, thank you. commissioner moore. commissioner moore: i want to make a quick comment on the small car. and not that you can mandate that people have small cars. but in europe, there are parking spaces that are dedicated for two smart cars being next to each other and they pay half. in public garages there are parking spaces where two cars, two smart cars, exactly fits the size of a full car. so they pay half. so if you have a monthly thing, and you're renting half a pace, and your monthly parking space just cost you half. and that's an incentive for many people who would like to have a car and many small cars are as comfortable and fast and releeble as the bigger ones there. and that's for many urban dwellers a very good alternative. so there's nothing unral stick. it's being done and -- in europe for many years and at night, everyone is rushing to the opera and needs to get in there in time before the kur taken calls and they're coming with little cars. and nose to nose into these parking spaces. and run off to make

dictionary but the groups would be in the process of individuals changing or have changed from custis ms. moorectivism to become more revolutionary, militant or extremist. >> i think it is a generalization. >> i asked him question, sir. some of these that we eluted to but it's just in the prisons have also been radicalized. that's my question. >> as some of the groups you didn't -- >> i just set my answer is a generalization to d'aspin nicoe que i'm going to repeat it. my question because you are here testifying on the record and claimant some sort of knowledge and expertise. so my question is based on the area that you worked in, would you agree members of the asian gang come mexican gang and white supremacists have been radicalized according to the definition i read in the webster's dictionary. and the definition of radicalized, i will repeat it again, are individuals who may have been passive or activist who's now become more revolutionary, militant or extremist in their actions and ideas. would you agree doing that? >> sutphen that brings me to the question of what my point is that i would

ms. moore: but the legislation before us would arbitrarily tie the secretary's hands from distributing these funds to any cities that fall outside the top 10 so-called most vulnerable. the city of milwaukee and surrounding counties -- that surround milwaukee, osaka, racine, and waukesha have $4 million in the uasi funding to enhance the safety of over two million residents. even though this assistance has been small, we're very, very proud of what we've been able to accomplish in terms of securing our area. for example, in milwaukee, my constituents are safer because we've used this assistance to train emergency medical teams, train and equip hazardous material and bomb squads, create continuity of operations plans and to analyze intelligence. it also helps to fund our intelligence fusion center, a place to collect and exchange information from government, public safety, private sector at all levels of enforcele. and i have heard concerns from our mayor, police chief, fire chief about whether o

representative reichert, tonko, ellison, moore, wasserman schultz, capps, slaughter, cuellar, fudge and wilson. i'd like to yield to the gentlelady from nevada, ms. berkley. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. berkley: thank you, mr. higgins. i rise in support of the amendment to eliminate a provision in this bill that would harm las vegas, phoenix, denver, miami, baltimore, detroit and a dozen more cities around the country. this bill before us would eliminate any funding for the urban area security initiative for all but the top 10 highest risk urban areas, leaving over 50 u.s. cities off the list, including my own city of las vegas, one of the greatest tourist destiny -- destinations in the world, with over 37 million visitors a year. for almost a decade uasi program has worked to help cities prevent acts of terrorism. not too long ago, over 60 u.s. cities received funding to help them purchase equipment, develop recovery plans and implement counterterrorism strategies. in my home city of las vegas, for example, we've create creathed the southern nevada counterterrorism center where 18 state, local and federal agencies all work toget